I used to live where we couldn't get new games or parts until we took took vacations back to visit family in the States. We quickly determined that the plastic white piece would eventually break after weeks of playing Alien Invaders, it never seemed to go fast enough left and right, and rolling the scores. We would stock of on the spare plastic pieces that broke thereby avoiding to buy whole new joysticks.
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I used to live where we couldn't get new games or parts until we took took vacations back to visit family in the States. We quickly determined that the plastic white piece would eventually break after weeks of playing Alien Invaders, it never seemed to go fast enough left and right, and rolling the scores. We would stock of on the spare plastic pieces that broke thereby avoiding to buy whole new joysticks.
I also broke many on Pacman.